The Story of Star-Lord!

I've just posted my final installment in the solo story of Peter Quill - Star-Lord over at Medium. His story now continues as part of the Guardians of the Galaxy's story, which I'll be telling in future installments.

Get Star-Lord's story at Medium

Part One - His Origin, with insights from Steve Englehart

Part Two - Star-Lord a la Heinlein - Chris Claremont & John Byrne take over

Part Three - Sexy Deep Space Adventures - the Doug Moench years

Part Four - Star-Lord's Back - But Not Peter Quill? Timothy Zahn & Rafael Marin explain

-and, just posted-

Part Five - The Return of Peter Quill!

You can jump into Part One of the Guardians of the Galaxy's story at Medium HERE.

These articles are lightly rewritten and re-edited excerpts from my latest book - Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy: An Unofficial Comic Book History (Glow-in-the-Dark Radio Books 2018) - Available in paperback and as an eBook at Amazon. You can also get the eBook at DriveThruComics.

New Article on Starlord!

My third and final "Cosmic Spotlight" on the Marvel Comics character "Starlord" is up now at http://cosmicbooknews.com. This covers the character from the nineties up to just before "Annihilation" begins. Science fiction writer Timothy Zahn was kind enough to answer some questions about his take on Starlord in the nineties. Rafael Marin told me why he and Carlos Pacheco decided to do something different with Starlord for their "Inhumans" miniseries in 2000. And then-Marvel Assistant Editor Andy Schmidt gives some insight into the Peter Quill revival that Keith Giffen began in "Thanos" in '04. Read all about it here: http://cosmicbooknews.com/articles/starlord_part_3

Chris Claremont provided his insights for the second installment. Did you know that he, John Byrne and Terry Austin did their "Star-Lord" story as a warm-up for their legendary run on "Uncanny X-Men"? I didn't, until he revealed that in our interview! Part two with Claremont is here: http://www/cosmicbooknews.com/articles/starlord_part_2

Steve Englehart created the character. He was kind enough to look back on Star-Lord's origin with me for the first installment: http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/articles/starlordcs

Really enjoyed looking back at a very cool character!